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Government and Law Databases
All off campus access is through Researchport. See the Guide to Researchport for more information.
ABI Inform [on-campus] [help]
Coverage: 1970 - present. Indexes more than 1,300 journals on business, management, with 75% full-text.-
BNA [on-campus]
Coverage varies. Variety of titles covering a broad spectrum of practice areas, including intellectual property, environmental law, federal securities, labor and employment, tax, and public contracts. Among the titles are U.S. Law Week, U.S. Patents Quarterly, and the BNA Tax Management Portfolios. Its daily publications, including Daily Tax Report, Daily Labor Report, and Daily Environment Report, are indispensable to the legal professional. NOTE TO OFF-CAMPUS USERS: In order to search for BNA journals in Research Port, you will need the exact title. You can find a complete list of titles at http://law.ubalt.edu/template.cfm?page=474 -
CQ
Researcher [on-campus]
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Coverage: 1991 - present. Provides full text essays on social and political topics, including chronologies, overviews of issues, opposing viewpoints and bibliographies. -
Criminal
Justice Abstracts [on-campus]
Coverage: 1968 - present. Criminal Justice Abstracts indexes the major journals, books and governmental reports in the areas of criminology and related disciplines. Topics include crime trends, corrections, police, offenders, juvenile delinquency, courts, victims, and sentencing. -
Criminal
Justice Periodicals[on
campus]
1981 to the present: Full-text coverage for 45 of the titles most frequently accessed by criminal justice researchers, and complete indexing and abstracts for another 140 relevant U.S. and international journals. -
HEIN
ONLINE: [On-campus]
Coverage: varies. A retrospective collection of over 90 law reviews, with over 200,000 articles. Full-text is available, in graphical image format. -
Lexis-Nexis
Academic [on-campus]
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Coverage: 1970 - present. Features full text of many newspapers and periodicals. Also offers business news, legal materials such as federal & state codes, case law and legal journals. -
Military
& Government Collection [on-campus]
Coverage: various dates. Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 350 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 450 titles. - National
Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
Coverage: 1975 - present. NCJRS contains abstracts of 160,000 criminal justice publications including journal articles; federal, state, and local government reports; books; research reports; and unpublished research; it also offers the full text of more than 1,500 publications at NCJRS and the U. S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. (URL: http://www.ncjrs.org) -
PAIS
- Public Affairs Information Service [on-campus]
Coverage: 1972 – present. Indexes 3600 journals, books, and government documents in the fields of political science, policy, public administration, society.